lseward@randvax.UUCP (Larry Seward) (11/13/86)
------- Received: from dali.Berkeley.EDU by rand-unix.ARPA; Sat, 9 Aug 86 19:31:20 pdt Received: by dali.Berkeley.EDU (5.53/1.14) id AA19765; Sat, 9 Aug 86 19:29:26 PDT Date: Sat, 9 Aug 86 19:29:26 PDT From: fateman@dali.berkeley.edu (Richard Fateman) Message-Id: <8608100229.AA19765@dali.Berkeley.EDU> To: symalg@rand-unix.ARPA Subject: "Vaxima" available from NESC Cc: fateman@dali.Berkeley.EDU, jeo@lanl.arpa A version of Macsyma for the VAX computer, including sources and binaries for Macsyma and the underlying Lisp (Franz Lisp opus 38.91), is in the National Energy Software Center library. (Argonne, IL.) (312) 972-7172. This should run without change on 4.3BSD UNIX or ULTRIX. This version, which was developed at the University of California, has also been run, with modifications, on various other (non-VAX) systems which support the Franz Lisp dialect. For information on Franz Lisp for VAX/VMS or other computers, you might wish to contact your hardware vendor or Franz Inc. in Alameda CA, (415) 769-5656. (for many mainframe and workstation computers) Vaxima uses about 4.5 megabytes of address space to start up, and as configured, can grow to 6.5 megabytes or so. By changing a compile-time parameter in the Lisp system, the system may be configured to grow much larger. (We have run a 53 megabyte system on a VAX 8600). At UC Berkeley we have been using this code on Sun-2 and Sun-3 systems, and microVAX-II's. Vaxima is quite fast when given enough physical memory, and appears at this time to be very cost-effective compared to implementations on special-purpose Lisp machines or "DOE-MACSYMA" for VAX/VMS. There are a number of packages that have been developed to work with this program (e.g. user interfaces, better algorithms for factoring, graphics, an interface to the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) library). Vaxima is not supported by UC Berkeley nor by NESC. Richard J. Fateman, U.C. Berkeley